Dissertation Defense
7 May 2012
Nikole Miller: "An assessment of language attitudes towards African American Vernacular English"
Chair: Clancy Clements
26 April 2012
Indrek Park: "A grammar of Hidatsa"
Chairs: Robert Botne and Douglas Parks
19 March 2012
Muhammad Alqassas: "The morpho-syntax and pragmatics of Levantine Arabic negation: A synchronic and diachronic analysis"
Chair: Steven Franks
23 January 2012
Paul Rodrigues: "Processing highly variant language using incremental model selection"
Chair: Sandra Kuebler
17 January 2012
Piibi-Kai Kivik: "Conversation-for-learning in Estonian coffee-hour: An Interactional linguistic perspective"
Chair: Samuel Obeng
12 November 2011
Saowanee Treerat: "Sincerity, intonation, and apologies: A case study of Thai EFL and ESL learners"
Chairs: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Ken de Jong
24 August 2011
Kanji Yoshida: "Phonetics and Phonology of Shiki-accent Systems in Mid-Western Japanese Dialects"
Chair: Ken de Jong
18 August 2011
Junghyoe Yoon: "Case drop in Korean"
Chair: Yoshihisa Kitagawa
17 August 2011
Scott Lamanna: "Columbian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish"
Chair: Clancy Clements
11 November 2011 Distinguished Alumni Room IMU
Tae Sik Kim: "Small projections and grammaticalization in Korean"
Chair: Steven Franks
This defense is for a degree in Linguistics. The defense is open to the
public, but those planning to attend should email the advisor
(franks@indiana.edu) as a matter of courtesy.
22 October 2010 Woodburn Hall 218
Christopher Green: "Prosodic Phonology in Bamana (Bambara): Syllable Complexity, Metrical Structure, and Tone"
Chairs: Stuart Davis and Samuel Obeng
This defense is for a degree in Linguistics. The defense is open to the
public, but those planning to attend should email the advisors
(davis@indiana.edu, sobeng@indiana.edu) as a matter of courtesy.
26 August 2010 Memorial 401
Iskra Iskrova: "Prosody and Information in two French-based Creoles in the Caribbean: Guadeloupean and Haitian" Chairs: Kenneth de Jong and Albert Valdman (Emeritus) This defense is for a degree in Linguistics and French and Italian.
16 June 2010 Memorial 317a
Mohammed, Emad Soliman Ali: "Orthographic Enrichment for Arabic Grammatical Analysis" Chair: Sandra Kübler This defense is for a degree in Computational Linguistics
11 June 2010 Memorial 317a
Sanders, Nathan: "A Statistical Method for Syntactic Dialectometry" Chair: Sandra Kübler This defense is for a degree in Linguistics
17 May 2010 Memorial 317a
Kim, Ock-Hwan: "The Syntax of Inaudible Noun Phrases in Korean" Chair: Yoshihisa Kitagawa This defense is for a degree in Linguistics
30 April 2010 Ballantine 006
Henriksen, Nicholas: "Question Intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish" Chairs: Daniel Dinnsen and Erik Willis This defense is for a joint degree in Linguistics and Spanish
21 September 2009 Psychology 128
Silbert, Noah: "Integration of phonological information in obstruent consonant identification" Chairs: Kenneth DeJong and James Townsend This defense is for a joint degree in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
7 August 2009 3pm Memorial Hall 317a
Mendez Vallejo, Catalina: "Focalizing ser ('to be') in Colombian Spanish" Chairs: Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo This defense is for a joint degree in Linguistics and Spanish
14 May 2009 2pm Psychology 128
Kapatsinski, Vsevolod: "The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task" Chairs: Kenneth DeJong and David Pisoni
30 January 2009 9:30 AM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Grimes, Stephen: "Quantitative Studies in Hungarian Phonotactics and Syllable Structure" Chair: Stuart Davis
(davis@indiana.edu)
22 December 2008 9:00 AM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Lee, Dongmyung: "Loanword Tonology of South Kyungsang Korean" Chair: Stuart Davis
(davis@indiana.edu)
15 December 2008 2:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Thompson, Mikael: "A Study of the Analogical Extension of the Mongolian Hidden-n Declension in Colloquial Standard Khalkha" Chair: Gyorgy Kara
(gkara@indiana.edu)
8 December 2008 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Jose, Brian: "Testing the Apparent-Time Construct in a Young Speech Community: Steel City Speech in and around Gary, Indiana on its 100th Birthday" Chair: Julie Auger
(jauger@indiana.edu)
August 8th, 2008 11:00 AM, Speech and Hearing
C108.
Ikuta, Toshikazu: "fMRI study of Grammar, Parkinson's
Disease and Dopaminergic Medication" Co-chairs: Steven Franks
(franks@indiana.edu) and Laura Murray
(lmurray@indiana.edu)
August 1st, 2008, 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401.
Park, Hanyong: "Phonological information and linguistic
experience in foreign accent detection" Chair: Kenneth de
Jong (kdejong@indiana.edu)
July 10, 2008, 9:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401.
Oglesbee, Eric: "Multidimensional Stop Categorization in
English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Canadian French" Kenneth de
Jong (kdejong@indiana.edu)
July 8, 2008, 9:30 AM, Indiana Memorial Union,
Charter Room.
Farris-Trimble, Ashley: "Cumulative faithfulness effects in
phonology" Chair: Daniel Dinnsen (855-7948)
June 14, 2008, 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401
Rojas, David: "Features and Methods for Automatic Dialect
Identification: Co-Chairs: Kenneth de Jong
(kdejong@indiana.edu)
and John Paolillo (paolillo@indiana.edu)
April 22, 2008, 3:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317
Wilkerson, Gladys (Rose): "Talkin' Country:
African-American English in the Mississippi Delta" Chair:
Stuart Davis (davis@indiana.edu)
April 14, 2008, 3:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317
Purvis, Tristan: "A Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of
Register Variation in Dagbani" Chair: Samuel Obeng (sobeng@indiana.edu)
June 25, 2007, 12:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317.
VanDam, Mark: "Plasticity of Phonological Categories" Chair: Robert Port (port@indiana.edu)
June 21, 2007, 3:00 PM, Ballantine Hall 135.
Shrager, Miriam: "The Accentual Systems of Masculine Nouns in the Krivici Dialects." Co-Chairs: Kenneth de Jong (kdejong@indiana.edu) and Ron Feldstein (feldstei@indiana.edu)
February 26, 2007, 9:30 AM, Memorial Hall 317.
Riordan, Brian: "Comparing Semantic Space Models Using Child-directed Speech." Co-Chairs: Michael Gasser (855-7078), Michael Jones (856-1490), Sandra Kuebler, and Chen Yu
December 13, 2006, 9:00 AM, Memorial Hall 317.
Burleson, Deborah: "Training Segmental Production for Second Language Intelligibility." Co-Chairs: Kenneth de Jong and Robert Port (855-6456)
November 17, 2006, 11:00 AM, Memorial Hall 317.
Kim, Maria: "Discourse variation in American magazine advertisements." Chair: Samuel Obeng (855-8199)
September 4, 2006, 3:00 PM, Charter Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Swanson, Kimberly: "Acquisition versus suppression of phonological processes in the second language acquisition of French and English." Co-Chairs: Daniel Dinnsen (855-7948) and Albert Valdman (855-4988)
August 15, 2006, 1:00 PM, Speech and Hearing C141.
Nagao, Kyoko: "Cross Language Study of Age Perception." Co-Chairs: Kenneth de Jong (856-1307) and Diane Kewley-Port (855-5103)
July 17, 2006, 2:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317.
Ofori, Seth: "Topics in Akan Grammar." Chair: Stuart Davis (855-2043)
February 3, 2006, 2:00 PM, Ballantine Hall 137.
Roehrs, Dorian: "The Morpho-Syntax of the Germanic Noun Phrase: Determiners Move Into the Determiner Phrase." Co-Chairs: Prof. Rex A. Sprouse (855-3248) and Prof. Steven Franks (855-8169)
January 27, 2006, 3:00 p.m, Memorial Hall, Room 317. Dillon, Caitlin: "Phonological Processing Skills and the Development of Reading in Deaf Children who Use Cochlear Implants.", Chair: Kenneth de Jong (856-1307)
Awarded Ph.Ds
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